First principles vs Mendel's principles of heredity: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Biological Evolution, Evolution
First principles
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as…
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Mendel's principles of heredity
Bateson named the science "genetics" in 1905-1906. This is the first textbook in English on the subject of genetics.
The verdict
- Mendel's principles of heredity reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 89 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| First principles | Mendel's principles of heredity | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (98) | — |
Reception
| First principles | Mendel's principles of heredity | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 98 | — |
| Editions | 54 | 42 |
| Citations | 26 | 89 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 11855 | — |
| Pages | 550 | 446 |